One of my favorite parts of the park at Halloween time is seeing the pumpkin carvers back in Big Thunder Ranch. They always inspire me to carve something each year. Here's what we carved at my house this year.

First you trace the designs on.

Then you pull out all the guts.

Ta-da!

Mickey Mouse

Phineas and Ferb title logo. I like the way the P and F turned out. The "and" was the most difficult since it's only holding on my the top of the d.

Phineas

Ferb

Perry the Platypus, Agent P

Doctor Heinz Doofenschmirtz

All in all, it was a fun afternoon of carving. All the designs were pretty simple so each took maybe 20-30 minutes start to finish.

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ahh i wish i had the skill to make a mickey pumpkin but i just went to walgreens and bought the plastic mickey pumpkin lol great pumpkins we never do real pumpkins because to messy and they seem to dye quickly in Las Vegas where the heat is dry :/

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To that end I'd like the Internet community to join me in reminding the Disney company that "it all started with Walt." As you can see below we've created some T-shirts, plus a few simple graphics that you can copy and paste into your websites to let folks know how you feel.

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great job! i think i'm gonna give the mickey mouse pumpkin a try. i've always been pretty bad with the carving, but that seems relatively uncomplicated and the finished result is pretty cool! oh, and awesome calvin/han solo and hobbes/chewbacca t-shirt by the way!

do you happen to have the template for the mickey (main st. version) that you did? i don't see a template posted on the disney website. they have a full-on mickey.

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great job! i think i'm gonna give the mickey mouse pumpkin a try. i've always been pretty bad with the carving, but that seems relatively uncomplicated and the finished result is pretty cool! oh, and awesome calvin/han solo and hobbes/chewbacca t-shirt by the way!

do you happen to have the template for the mickey (main st. version) that you did? i don't see a template posted on the disney website. they have a full-on mickey.

That's one of my favorite shirts right now. Combining two awesome things. As an aside, I've seen similar drawings with Marty and Doc from Back to the Future, Batman and Robin, and Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World. Never in shirt form though.

I actually made that template myself based on a photo I had of it. I'm not at home at the moment, but I took the photo of what I carved, inverted the colors, and saved it as mono-chrome. You can use this as a guide if you'd like.

You'd be surprised how easy it is when you're following a pattern. The tools I used for this all came out of one of those cheap pumpkin carving kits, plus an ice cream scoop for the guts. Those tiny saws in the kit work really well. And a lot of the mistakes you make are invisible at night once there's a candle in them.

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That's one of my favorite shirts right now. Combining two awesome things. As an aside, I've seen similar drawings with Marty and Doc from Back to the Future, Batman and Robin, and Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World. Never in shirt form though.

I actually made that template myself based on a photo I had of it. I'm not at home at the moment, but I took the photo of what I carved, inverted the colors, and saved it as mono-chrome. You can use this as a guide if you'd like.

thanks for the template! will definitely be trying this out sometime this week. and now off to find those other C&H photos you mentioned!